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Hamlet, NE schools

Hamlet’s public schools score well below Nebraska’s averages: 37% of students are proficient in reading against 48.2% statewide, and 75% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86%. Kids attend Wauneta-Palisade Elementary School through grade 5, then Wauneta Palisade Middle School and Wauneta-Palisade High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

TownTapestry School GradeNew

Hamlet’s School Grade: D

The public schools Hamlet’s kids attend trail 88% of Nebraska’s districts on state tests.

DTest scores
Nebraska school districts we grade (246)Better than 12%
Lower resultsHigher results
Lower confidence. Built on 131 tested students. With numbers this small, one year can move the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Nebraska’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Nebraska only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Nebraska with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Hamlet kids go to school

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Wauneta-Palisade)37%
State average 48.2%
Math (grades PK–12, Wauneta-Palisade)37%
State average 46.1%
Graduation · class of 2020

75% graduate on time

Graduation rate
75%
NE: 86%
Graduating class
15
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Hamlet

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Hamlet

There’s no college within 30 miles of Hamlet. The closest is Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis, NE, 41.8 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Hamlet. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in Hamlet yet.

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